RE: Getting images printed in larger formats

["David J. Bookbinder" <david_bookbinder@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rafe,

Thanks for both the clarifications and the recommendations. I'll check out
both places.

More anon,
David

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-scan@leben.com [mailto:owner-scan@leben.com]On Behalf Of
Raphael Bustin
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 2:39 PM
To: scan@leben.com
Subject: RE: Getting images printed in larger formats


At 03:11 PM 2/28/02 -0500, David Bookbinder wrote:

>Bill,
>
>I'm not sure at all, yet, how to answer those questions. I am just
beginning
>this process of figuring out how best to present these images.
>
>I have made a series of abstract images through various manipulations of
>what were originally digital photographs. They look like abstract art, not
>photographs, and I'd like to reproduce them, large, on a medium that will
>make them look non-photographic. I have no fixed budget. I'd probably start
>out small, with just a half-dozen images, and then go from there. What
would
>your cost/sq ft be for, say, prints made on paper with a canvas-like
>texture? As for inks, I now use a cheap six-color Epson inkjet to create
the
>originals, and they are fairly faithful to the monitor image, though I'd
>prefer a wider gamut. I print on Kodak papers that claim to encapsulate the
>ink to give it reasonable fade-resistance even when not kept under glass.
>I'd be looking for the same, or better, gamut and longevity, which I assume
>is possible either with a better inkjet (and wider range of inks) or a
>photographic process.


David, FWIW:

1. On inkjet printers, gamut and longevity are inversely related.
This seems to be an immutable law, like f=ma.

2. The best gamut (on inkjets) will be with dye inks.  The gamut
of an Epson printer, using dye ink, is hard to beat -- except maybe
by a true photographic process.

3. Lightjet and Lambda printers will print RGB image files direct
to color photo paper using RGB lasers -- so you get the best of
both worlds (gamut and longevity.)

4. Advanced Photographics (in Danvers, MA) has a Lambda
printer.

5. Foto-1 (in Ann Arbor, Michigan, www.foto1.com) has a
Lightjet printer.  Their prices will be hard to beat, and the
work I've had done there has come out fine.


rafe b.

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